Asha Lakra is presently the Mayor of Ranchi, Jharkhand. She first contested elections in 2014 and then in 2018, and won both times....

At Women for Politics (WfP), we are committed to breaking the narrative of women as victims who need to saved and seen as beneficiaries...

The 2019 general elections have opened the doors of the Parliament of India to many women from humble backgrounds

Women cannot be locked up behind walls and expected to be docile. They will speak up, as is conveyed through these lines from Kishwar Naheed

A bill for women’s suffrage was presented to the Provincial Assembly of Bengal in 1921.

I grew up in North India where this duality of everyone having a political opinion and concluding with ‘Politics is a dirty game’ always exi

The 2017 local elections marked a historic moment for women’s inclusion in the politics of Nepal, with 40% of women voted in the local govts

Legal reforms since Pakistan’s independence have created pathways for women participation in the political arena, augmented by civil society